This literary hotel arranged across ten canal houses is the place to bump in to your favourite author. Staff are discreet and attentive, and rooms - which stretch from single...

A dazzling art nouveau monument that's looking extra spruce now that a fountain has been added to its terrace, the public areas here - like the magnificently buttressed Café...

Run by owners - and hubbies - Johan and Joost, this hip hotel shines like the pages of a trendy glossy magazine. The rooms are cosy, and the breakfast area on the ground floor...

Once you check in to this grand hotel in a former bank building, everything is yours to choose. Drinks and snacks in the lounge, films and mini-bar in your room: everything is...

Feeling gloriously isolated on the eastern banks of the Amstel, this private hotel in a former stone-mason's workshop is actually just a few minutes' stroll from the bright...

A long-established name on Amsterdam's hotel scene, this upmarket place is owned by a publisher, so authors often drop in to stay. In an 18th-century warehouse building near...

This chain hotel standard has great views over the Amstel river to the front and is well placed to crash after indulging in the fleshpots of Rembrandtplein behind, but it's...

The first gay hotel in town, the Golden Bear's rooms are spacious and comfortable, though not all have private bathrooms. Single rooms have double beds.

This rather well-kept secret of a hotel is the opposite of the grand gestures of the Amstel hotel, and the epitome of understated glamour. It's a small, flower-filled building...

Ideal for flower power freaks who want to stock up on bulbs, this homey little place in an 18th-century house on a canal is right in the thick of it, very near the floating...

This higgledy-piggledy place in an old Dutch East India Company sea captain's house is perched on a secluded little canal near the river. The rooms here are plain and basic,...

On twinkling Leidsegracht - a genteel canal that's just minutes from the nightlife of Leidseplein - the Piller family take good care of the seven bright, simply decorated rooms...

A good option for budget travellers who just want a place to kip down at night, this dinky, ten-roomed hotel is right near the city's nightlife and foodie Utrechtsestraat, and...

Sprawling, though ever so elegantly, across a staggering 25 canal houses, the Pulitzer is an ideal destination for indulgent getaways. Guests can arrive by boat, rooms are big...